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THE ATLANTA GEOEfTTAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. APRTL 17. 191°,. met tii. has the to win IN BUTTLE FOB FREE TICKETS T HE Georgian’* Baseball C< Is over. Fans from all ovc city sent <n stories yestt the final day of tne contest. Thi test editor was « busy party a] and stated that over a thousant: are after a free season ticket t Crackers' home games this sea? Alt day yesterday stories streaming into the Georgian’s The final story arrived at the office at 11:45 a. m. They will all receive the same attention. Frank Callaway, Charles No Final ly and Gus Ryan, the Directors of the Atlanta Baseball Association have been selected as judges. Th<. will read every story carefully b< fore deciding tic winners. The judges will start work to-day SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT •• His Honor is Still at Atlantic City 1913, by st.r company. By 1 fad • and the fans will know wt lucky ones soon. Due to the gn at number of stories sent in. it will Ik several days before the winners are announced. Ten Season Tickets. There are ten free season ticket offered by the Georgian. These n to be given to nine different t ople The one who wrote the best stc-i-y will get two tickets. The fans will be notified as soon as the winn» i are decided on and the tickets will be distributed accordingly. The Georgian’.! Contest has proven a great succe.-s in every way f rom the first day of the contest until yesterday, April 16, the ims h i < been sending in stories. Most of tie stories were written on one side of the paper and are around 600 word in length. Fans Are Enthused. Several of the contestants, who ar rived at the Georgian’s office during the contest, were enthused over the treat to be handed them. All rca lize that Bill Smith’s team has an excellent chunca to win the pennant and they want to be on hand t<> root. The Georgian's Contest been the greatest treat offered baseball fans in years and they t&lnly rushed at the chan one of the Free Season Tickets. Lawyers, bankers, bookkeepers, carpenter®, clerks., and errand boys liavo entered th* contest. Several of the youngsters were early c alien at the Georgian'* office yesterday. They wanted to be sure their stone would get In. ILLINOIS SENATOR BUYS SEATS; CAN’T GET THEM CHICAGO, ILL., April 17 Failure of State Senator Edmund Beall, member of the Senate 1 Vice Commis sion and Sergeant-at- Arms T. B. Scouten of the Senate to obtain pos session of box seats for which they had paid at the West Side Baseball Park recently may result in the in troduction of legislation at Spring- field this week, intended to cover such cases. The seats which were sold the two w ere found to be occupied, and inves tigation is said to have revealed the fact that the occupants also had paid their money for them. An ap peal was made to the management, without effect, and then Senator Beall declared that he would introduce* a bill in the Legislature, which would provide a fine of from $100 to $1,')00 against any amusement enterprise promoter or any owner <>t i street car or other public conveyance*, who sells a seat in his park or ear and then fails to see that the buyer gets what he has paid for. The Senator also said he would ask the Vice Commission to under take an Investigation to ascertain why Sunday baseball is allowed in Illinois. If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. FRANK "KLAUS RETURNS; AFTER SMITH AND LUTHER NEW YORK. April 17.—Priuik Klaus, the middleweight who gath ered considerable fame and mom \ fighting in Paris in the last \. months, returned home yi su rday. H. announced his eagerness to meet Gdnboat Smith and Luther M* (’art . topnotchers in the heavy division. TOMMY RYAN AND M'COY IN VAUDEVILLE SKETCH SYRACUSE, X V„ April 17 T i my Ryan, of Syraeu.se. and K ,\1 Coy, of New York, two of t: « e , i est fighters the world has ever known, may soon be seen upon the sta in t vaudeville sketch These two form* r title holders were bitter enemies and teliy spoke and shook hands to-day for the first time in fifteen years. The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have anything to sell The Sunday Amer ican is "The Market Place of the South." The Sunday American is the best advertising medium. MOHA TO BOX DILLON. MILWAUKEE, W1S., April 17 Bob Moha, Milwaukee, and J , Dil lon, Indianapolis, signed art ides \ * s- terday for a ten-round boxing con test before the South Side Athletic Club. April 28. They will v in at 160 )xmnds. MRS. JOSHUA CRANE DEAD. WESTWOOD. MASS.. A;: 17. Mrs. Joshua Crane, wife af*;h, for mer champion racquet player, sports man And Harvard football coach. -Id at her home here to-day. Paul Musser Gets a Trial To-day O O O O © o © Yesterday’s Game Was a Fright B\ IV ivy EL Whiting. O N the time-honored and general ly accepted hypothesis that It’s a great idea to get all the errors and bad plays out of one’s system speedily as possible the Crack ers ought to have fortified themselves ye.- tcrd&y for a long run of errorless days. T hey should now start out playing errorles.M ball and keep on playing without mlscue for Hx months any way maybe for ten years. And this would be helpful. For to ll \ the Crackers wind up their first home stay with a dosing game with th«' Barons. To-night they leave for Nashville for a 4-game series with Bill Schwartz’s hopefuls. When this ie ova r they come back to Atlanta to play until May 1. • * * A S for yesterday’s game—well, * * there isn’t the least hard feeling about it it was so awful it was funny -like a futurist Ipainting or a low grade melodrama. Several of the innings were so bad it was unbelievable. In tne second, for example, the Crackers made four atrocious bob bles—more than they have made in any previous game of the season. In that inning Bailey made two er rors on one fly ball—more than the Crackers made in three of their five previous games. In the entire contest the Crackers rolled up eight errors, only one more than the team has made in the en tire season up to yesterday. Oh. it was RICH. * * • rjOFBTLESS it - was about due. The * Or i ker» were winning regularly and they were about ready to get all swelled up about it. To-day they will turn out. with determination to wipe out the disgrace. Bill Smith will use Paul Musser to pitch, and if the blonde lad goes at anything like the speed he showed against Chatta nooga when he beat them last Satur day. allowing only two hits, the locals will win another. One thing is a cinch. The locals will not face the Barons this time with any notion that they are going to eat pie. • * ■» T F it were necessary to return a ver- 1 diet on the question of whether the Oraiker pitchers, put the fielders In the air or the fielders put the pitch ers in the air we should be hard put t>» it for the answ er. Considering that Weaver allowed two hits and hit a batter before an error was perpe trated it may be that the burden of blame rusts on his sloping though massive shoulders Anil then again, • >f the next three plays after the ones mentioned, two were horrid errors. S<» there you arc. As we don’t have to hang anybody for the crime there’s nothing to It hut to refrain from a verdict and i’ist -it back and enjoy the slaughter in all its gory details. • * * 1 T was Atlanta’s turn to lose nny- * how. but what made the thing look i irti- ularly bad for the Crackers was the fact that Pfoug<h was due t<» pitch. He was a terror last year against the locals and a fair pitcher around the entire circuit, though his r ‘lest effectiveness was against At- la nta. P; ugh didn’t have to do anything but lo..f after th* first Inning, but tl t 80 < i:*'. Lively that th- 1 Crackers made only 7 hits and 3 runs Has It ever beet! mentioned that the Barons scored 11? \Vcll„ let it forth with boom*- a part of the records. .1 fact worthv of note. Any to mi that < an score 11 off the Atlanta t< tm of 1913 deserves a lot of credit. • • • "P HE best we can say about the af- * ’.Ur is Throw this game out of ' air lope hook. It will have to go down in the record bocks. But don’t !«-t it throw your form chart ofT plumb ; The Crackers look Just as good as | th‘*y ever did now that it is over, i t mugh they looked pretty hopelessly bad while It was going on. T TRUSSES Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery etc. Expert fitters; both lady and iner attendants; private fitting roam Jacobs’ Main Store 6-8 Marietta St. any other team in League. the Southern THE Birmingham team looked a 1 shade better yesterday than in any of the previous games. Senno, who was regarded as a doubtful citizen, fielded spectacularly and smacked out two three-baggers. The infield worked nicely. Prough pitched a useful game and Mayer caught well. Evidently Mayer is to be one of the league- Kars. He made three hits out of five times up yesterday and handled his position spectacularly. The Barons have a find in this chap. The following letter has been re ceived by The Georgian, expressing the thanks of the Atlanta Baseball Association for the co-operation* of the paper in securing the opening day attendance trophy: Atlanta, Ga., April 16. 1913. Editor of The Georgian, Atlanta. Georgia. Dear Sir: In behalf of the At lanta Baseball Association. I de sire to thank you. and through you the men on the sporting staff of the Georgian for your gener ous efforts made in securing the largest attendance on our open ing day in Atlanta of th<> base ball season. The result secured would have been Impossible but for your co-operation and the co operation of other newspapers and organizations in Atlanta. It is my observations in Atlanta. It question comes up to test the superiority of Atlanta perform ances in any matter, that the newspapers are always to be found leading the procession. Without such a medium of pub licity. of course, an accomplish ment of this sort would be im possible. We thank you. Very truly, F. E. CALLAWAY. President. Baseball Summaries. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Birmingham ai Atlanta, Ponce DeLeon Park. Game called at S:15 o’clock. Memphis at Mobile. New Orleans at Montgomery Chattanooga at Nashville. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C. Atlanta 6 1 .833 N’ville 3 2 TOO Mobile 4 3 .571 Mont. 3 3 .500 W M’phls 3 N. Or. 3 B’ham 2 ?hatt 1 7. L. P C. , oo .429 .400 .167 Yesterday’s Results. Birmingham 11. Atlanta 3. Mobile 3. Memphis 1. Nashville 8, ( hatenooga 2. Montgomery 2, New < rleano 2 New Orleans 5. Montgomery 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Cleveland at Chicago. St. Louis at Detroit. Boston at Philadelphia Washington at New York. Standing of the Clubs. Phila. Wash’ll. Ch’go C’land W L. P C. 0 1.000 0 1.000 2 667 2 .600 W. L. P.t St. L. 3 3 .500 N. York 1 2 Boston 1 3 D’trolt 1 4 .33 .250 .200 Yesterday’s Results. Cleveland 2. Detroit 1. Chicago 3. St lx)ula 2. Philadelphia-Washington, rain New York-Boston. rain NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games To-day. New York at Boston Cincinnati at Pittsburg Chicago at St Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C. Boston 1 0 1.000 B’lyn 2 l 667 St L. 2 1 .667 Chi’Ro 2 2 .500 W. L. P C P’burg. 2 PhJla.... 1 C’natl 4 N. York. 0 .500 1 .500 2 .333 2 000 Yesterday’s Results. Cincinnati 5, St Louis 0. Host on-Philadelphia, rain. Brooklyn New York. rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Standing of the Clubs. n er IF biiscbnll betting fraternity i? n quer institution. Yerterdav i of bets were recorded at 2 to 1 t the Barons would lose, ow. such a thing as a legitlmat 1 to one bet on 1 one championship eball game never came off. There such thing, et fans will go crazy and offer i odds—and lose their good money them. w old be better far if no bet were made on a ball game. But if must bets there should cure- mighty few of the 2 to 1 variety. : certainly none when a team as Birmingham is playing W. L. P C. K. City 6 0 1.000 M'w'kee 3 1 .750 M'ap'lis 3 2 .600 St. P. 3 2 .600 l'anolis. C’lnus. L’vllle Toledo W. L PC 2 .500 3 .250 5 167 4 000 Yesterday’s Results. Minneapolis 5, St. Paul 2 Milwaukee 2, Toledo 2 (10 innings!. MAYER TO PLAY HOPPE. PHILADELPHIA PA.. April 17 — Joseph Mayer, the winner of the re cent national amateur championship billiard tournament, will meet Willie Hoppe, professional champion, in two exhibition games in this city to-day and Friday. Hoppe will play 18.1 and Mayer 18.2. MATBDOTS BIG LIAGUt GOSSIP N EW YORK, April 17.—From Washington there comes the story that Walter Johnson has expressed the fear he may some day kill a player by hitting him on the head with one of his fast ones. The great pitcher added that if he should ever hit a batter a blow that turned out fatally he would quit the game. When Johnson said this, he expressed the fear which is felt by many big league pitchers who depend on their speed for their effectiveness. Of course, lots of twirlers could hit the batter In the head as 1 — often as they pleased and little damage would be done to the head. They rely on curves or the appli cation of their wits to pitching to get along. They lack a fast one. Speed, however, is the most valuable possession a pitcher can have, and any man who can shoot them over fast largely depends on this asset, mixing in the other forms of delivery only occa sionally. Many pitchers have been unnerved when they have hit batters in the head and knocked them out. I don't believe there is a man working in the big league to-day who would hit a batter in the head purposely, and, frequently, twirlers will shout: “Look out!” This Is when they realize that the ball Is going wild as soon as It leaves their hand and want to warn the hitter. Time and again I have seen a pitcher hit some batter in the head in a ball game which has re sulted in the injured man being carried off the field unconscious, and then the twirler who did it has blown up, even though he may have been going like a house afire before the accident. It is a dread held by all speed pitchers. Many managers have come to recognize It now, and take a twirler out Just as soon as he hits a man and hurts him badly. Johnson claimed that one of the New York Ameri can League team players almost walked into a fast one head-first during the first contest of the season in Washington. The narrow' escape of the New York player upset Johnson, and the players say he ‘ crabbed’’ to Connolly, the umpire, about it for the rest of the game. This is an unusual procedure for Johnson, I am told, as he Is one of those pitchers who seldom complain over the umpiring. It was afterward that Johnson made the remark about his fear of hit ting a player some day and the result being fatal. Once last summer the big Washington pitcher ’beaned’’ Martin, a recruit shortstop of the Yankees, and he was caried off the field and was out of the game for a long time. It was feared, at first, that the Injury might be serious, and it is said the accident upset Johnson greatly and hurt his pitching for some time. • * • M ANY players are hit in the head when the coach- ers are trying to tip off signs to the batters. If the hitter is given notice that the pitcher may be expected to throw one kind of a ball and he suddenly meets another, the result is uncertain. It may he too late for an ambulance. A man cannot very well stand up and set himself to hit at a curve ball and pull hack In time to duck a fast one—with a hop on It toward him. That is the reason most managers consider it dangerous to attempt to read the signs. 1 had one experience of this sort, myself, several years ago. It was when Eagle Eye Jake Beckley played on the Cincinnati club, and I had more smoke on my fast one then than there is now. Beckley was a good natural hitter, but he liked to have the signs tipped off to him. The coacher at third base was supplying him with information one day I was pitch- ing, and we got on to it. We switched our signs, and the next inning Beckley got hit in the head. He was out of the game for several weeks, while it was many hours before he regained consciousness. This accident upset me, but not aB much as it would had 1 not known they were getting our signs. Beckley knew he was taking a chance of being hurt when he prepared himself for the pitch before he got a look at the ball, and I did not feel I w'as to blame. At another time I “beaned” Bill Lauder, formerly the third baseman of the Giants, during morning practice. He was never the same again, and I regret that as much as anything. * * * W HEN batters are hit and hurt by pitched balls, it is generally their own fault, because, as a rule, they have ample opportunity to get out of the way. Many make the mistake of dodging into the ball instead of away from it, and this is usually disastrous, especially if it is a fast one. Most pitchers in the big league have good control now, and, as I have said, the old trick of shooting at the batter’s head Is going out of fashion. Pitchers who have reputations for being wild often make the batters more afraid of them than the ones who have the best control, be cause the men are chary about standing up to the plate to them as they are to the good sharp-shooters. There are a few pitohers who gossip of their lack of control and fear of hitting a batter purposely so that they will have a slight edge when a man comes to the plate. If the hitter is afraid of being hurt, he is not going to be so confident of meeting the ball. But the dread of a fatal accident expressed by Walter Johnson is genuine with most pitchers, and such an accident would doubtless make a man useless In base ball ever afterward. * • * aF all the holdouts of last winter, Ty Cobb is the sole survivor at this writing. How much longer he will last is a great question. Th* prophets declare he has not a chance to beat organized baseball, whereas others contend that Mr. Navln may as well shut up his park if he attempts to go through the season without Cobb. Anyway, it is an interesting case from the angle of both the ball player and the owner. • • • nr* HE season got away in bad form this year. So * did the pennant winners of the last race. Fans arose on the morning after the opening to find the Giants and the Boston Americans both at the bot tom of the ladder. Still not all the boys on the New York club have conceded the flag yet. We hope for a look-in. Before passing on, I want to pause to speak of Hub Puruue, who did the pitching for the Boston club against the Giants in the first game of the season in New York. Purdue has developed within the last two years into one of the best twirlers in the game, and It Is a high compliment to be recognized as a topnotcher while appearing with the Boston team. That is enough to destroy any ambition. Purdue developed a trick against the Giants in that first game indicative of his native shrewdness and the even temperament with which he is blessed. Hereto fore Purdue has depended on a lot of speed and a nice curve for his pitching effectiveness. That is all we were looking for when he went to work against us. The first inning had not become history before one of the boys came back to the bench and said: “That guy’s got a spitter, and he don’t put the ball near his mouth.” "He can’t spit through his hands," answered Larry Doyle. “We’ll watch him.” We began to watch him. Sometimes he would put the ball up to his face as if to wet it for a saliva- coated one, and the batter would prepare for a spit ter. Up would come a curve or a fast one. Then a spitter would drop out of nowhere when Purdue had not had the ball near his mouth. “Nice break on that one, wasn't there?” he would Inquire. • * * T HE secret has leaked out since. Perdue was very desirous of winning that first game and began to prepare for it away back when the Boston club first started its spring practice. Hub discovered he could obtain very good results with a spitter when he began to try to get acquainted with one in the spring camp. But no mention of his achievement was made In the newspapers, because the Boston club is not watched by an army of correspondents while in spring training as are the Giants. At last, when Purdue had his spitter working well enough to use In a game, Stallings and he got together on a scheme to conceal it. 'Wet your glove," Stallings told him. “and rub the ball In It while holding you hands at your waist." The idea worked as smoothly as a demonstration automobile. Hub would spit into his glove when he had his back to the batter and then wet the ball from that. He had us all tied up. and certainly pitched a wonderful game. That trick is liable to attain promi nence in the big leagues this season and make the spitball a more formidable instrument. It was the fact that you could generally tell when to expect one that has reduced its effectiveness a little bit so far. * * * B OSTON is going to give some of the other clubs which usually adorn the second division cluster In the National League a tough battle to keep it in last place. Stallings will insist on the team working all the year, as he has shown time and again he pos sesses the accomplishments of a manager. When they dig up tricks like that spitball one. it will be a team to hustle. The club also showed considerable baseball in that first game. Still, one summer don't make a swallow. * * * E VERYBODY in the American League admits that the Athletics are out for the money this year, even the Athletics. They made a grand plunge into the standing of the clubs by trimming Boston very handily once, and with more difficulty, but still trim ming. the Red Sox a second time. Connie Mack has some of his American League contemporaries wor ried, including Jake Stahl. Jake admits the Athletics will bear watching. * * * I T'S too early to pick a world's series winner before next week. (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Pilgrims Much Improved Team Q © © O O © © Display Class Under Stallings By Sam Crane. N F.W YORK, April 17.—The Bos- tons have been known to flash before in early games. One long to be remembered spring not so long ago, Frank Bowerman, then their manager, had pennant aspirations for a few sweet dreamy weeks, and a manager’s salary in his mind’s eye that would make the annual stipends of McGraw and Chance look like thirty centimes. Frank became so chesty over nis accession of managerial acumen that he wouldn’t even look at his old friends here in New York and became so exclusive that he took his break fasts in bed for fear of being an noyed by wild-eyed scribes anxious to secure his pedigree and predic tions of the future. Frank a ‘'Sword Swallower.” That was the rumor, anyhow, but I have my own opinion about Frank's retirement from public view in hotel dining rooms. As a successful manager, Frank, who was what :s known as a "sword swollower,” inas much as he could balance more round green peas on his knife blade than any other manager or baseball player, was desirous of overcoming that Class L bush league habit of'his youth. He sought the seclusion of his room to practice on the "eats" with an up- to-date fork. It is said, too, that he even ordered soup for breakfast, and ate It with the two-tined iron fork of his boyhood days in the backwoods. But while Frank may have improved in table manners, he lost ground as a manager. His team, after a few weeks of annoyance to opponents, tumbled to the place in the race best suited to them. They attained th«- : r lever. And so did Bowerman. Stallings Not Overconfident. Now, George Stallings is not one who eats with his knife, and he knows too much about the ups and downs of baseball to become chesty ovw "one successive victory” by his team. No other men could have been any more successful than he has in de veloping winners from second divi- sioners. He has patched up the Pi'- griins from a very small nucleus of high class talent to work on, and the smoothness with which his team played against the Giants on the opening day shows that he has been doing some good work on the train ing trip. Not much was said about the Pilgrims while they were hidden away in secluded out of the way Athens, Ga.. but they forced them selves into the sperlight with a rush. PREP LEAGUE NOTES Washington and Lee University will hold a meet for prep schools all over the South on the 26th and 27th of this month. This is an annual affair, and about 1,000 entries have already been handed in to the athletic board of W. and L. • • • Charlie Allen, of Marist, has been playing an up and down game at third base this season. In the Boys High game he pulled several bum plays, and again in the game Tuesday with Tech High he was off color. * * * When he is playing his game, Charlie Allen is probably the classiest third sacker in the Pr«o League He was the unanimous choice for that place on last year’s all-prep nine, and it is hoped that he will soon steady down. * * * The Boys High team has been working hard lately. Sam Armistead is making the men run all the way round the bases in batting practice, and there is no let up from the time they reach the field until they are ready to leave. * • * The team is determined to win the pennant in the Prep League this year. Thev have won one and lost none, and are leading all others in the standing of the teams. * * * The Tech High baseball team is brim ful of confidence since the victory‘over Marist Tuesday. They are right in the running now for the Prep League pen nant and are going to make.a hard fight of it from now on. * * * They have two star pitchers in Weston and Parks, and if the boys can stay steady for the rest of the season there is no reason why the team should not cop the flag. * * * Bill Parks, the Tech High shortstop, who has been out of the game for over a week, is back in harness again. He was in the line-up against Marist and played good hall. Tarks sprained his ankle in practice last week. * * * There will he no runs of more than a mile in anv of the amateur meets [his veor. The authorities have decided that anything over a mile is liable to prove disastrous to the young athletes. The Bov Scout athletic meet, which w ill he held at Piedmont Bark Saturday will be a monster affair. There will be about three hundred entries. Includ ing troops from all parts of Atlanta and suburbs, as well as nearby cities. * * * Peacock Is making plans for a field dov The affair will take place next month at Piedmont Park and will be held hv the different classes of the school. There are a number of pretty fair athletes at Peacock, and a large entry list is looked for. • * • Here Is the standing of teams in the Atlanta Prep League: _ Trl . Won. Lost. P. C. Boys High 1 0 1.000 Tech High s 1 .750 Marist i i .500 g- M. A 1 2 .333 Peacock 0 2 .000 * * * Riverside Military Academy has the best team In its history this year. The team has played eight games this sea son, including two regular scheduled G. I. A. A. contests, and has won all of them. * * * Hickman, who is signed to join the Washington Club as soon as his school is out in June, has not been playing w*5u, the t ® am thls year - as he is J n- cligible under the O. I. A. A. rules. * * * Following Is the standing of the teams in the G. I. A. A.: J Won. Lost. p. C. 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